Thanks, I tried forcing the lib path and it solved it .. however it then couldn't find the includes path .. so I forced that and now its saying it can't find the package. hmmm, Seems like there is some underlaying problem.

I have the R2 working with gr-osmsdr but the performance is poor compared to my airspy ... i think I need Soapy to get the R2 supported properly.

There's an 'uninstall' target in the SoapySDR Makefile, so you can use that to remove it. There isn't one for SoapySDRPlay, but I don't think it does much more than install a lib, which you could manually remove. This was how the install of the latter went for me: